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Hack Attack: Take Launchy beyond application launching. Click to view Most people know Launchy as a simple and lightning-fast application launcher for Windows, but it's actually capable of much more than that. Using Launchy, you can append text to files, schedule appointments, add to your to-do list, set reminders, and more—it just takes a little setting up. Today I'll detail how I use Launchy for more than just app launching. The real brains behind most of what I describe below involves using Windows batch files in conjunction with cURL (an open source command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax) and Twitter.* So if you don't already have it, go download cURL (find the Windows section), then extract the curl.exe file to C:\WINDOWS .

Now download this zipped folder . Inside you'll see several batch files I've prepared for you. Basically, we're going to use these batch files like plugins by running terminal commands with Launchy . C:\Program Files\Launchy\Utilities . Remember the Milk with Launchy Set SMS reminders with Launchy. Windows XP Installation Guide | Michael and Mary's site. DM2. Windows Console. Windows XP installation guide | Michael and Mary's site. Free Software - Windows Freeware.

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